Cite as (APA style): Okoro, J, (2026). The Many Faces of Pain Experience in Life: A Transcultural Approach. The Global Psychotherapist, 6(1), 270-275
Abstract: The problem of death and dying, and how to cope with death, is still a taboo theme in different cultures. In this exposé, different aspects of pain will be illustrated, and I will narrate 10 stories, each named after a newborn baby whose family experienced a death. These Names given to newborns help families cope with the pains that arise in the course of family history. Every African name has a history. The names given to Children after a long episode and encounter with death, pain, and dying disclose the way and manner the Igbo people in Nigeria cope with death and also their hope in life. Death is personalized in these narrations. The effectiveness of such stories in therapy is enormous.
Keywords: Positive Psychotherapy, transcultural approach, death, grief, pain